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Pwnerjam3.0
05/22/09

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well Nintendo's products are mainly for kids and smart phones are for adults...at least for now
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valthun
05/22/09

@Pwnerjam3.0: Really? All of nintendos products are mainly for kids? I know more adults than kids that own a nintendo product. In my adult life I have owned every generation of gameboy minus the micra, and every generation of DS, excpet for DSi since my DS works just fine currently and I still have GBA titles to play.

Where I work I would say that 90% of management own a nintendo product, be it DS, Wii, or a gamecube. They also all own an iphone, with the exception of solitaire and maybe sudoku we game on platforms made primarily for gaming.
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Nick
05/22/09

@valthun: your job. what is it?
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Nick
05/22/09

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i don't see the iPhone replacing nintendo anything per se, but i do agree folks aren't gonna wanna carry abunch of devices for very long. and if nintendo thinks people will pick a DS over any phone they're smoking crack. and crack is wack.
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frigg
05/22/09

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"I do not imagine that iPhone will dominate the Nintendo DS market..."

So, the only person to ever refer to the iPhone without the "the" outside of Apple employees (who are required to not say the "the" and pretend like it sounds normal) is the president of Nintendo.
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ae86takumi
05/22/09

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I detect Apple fanboyism is your remarks. Just saying that Nintendo should do this and that because they will get crushed by Apple, it's the same talk that people said when the Xbox 360 came out and the PS3 too that they would destroy the Wii because it did not have graphics to match them.

The iPhone is a great product, but you are giving it too much credit for what it's worth.
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Mark Wilson
05/22/09

@ae86takumi: RTFA. It's not just Apple they are contending with. It's a whole series of devices in a changing technological landscape.
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Nick
05/22/09

@Mark Wilson: i have never seen you guys respond to the fanboy remark they often hurl at yall. i like it. you're fierce. like a tiger. but not a las vegas show tiger. a discovery channel, eat your baby tiger.
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Techguy1138
05/22/09

@Mark Wilson:

I did 'read the fucking article'

The remark you pulled from Nintendo was specifically about Apple.

You never mentioned gaming on another device.

You closed with a comment on how Apple can match Nintendo on any radical market movements.

This was an article about Apple and Nintendo. If this was meant to be a critique on the larger issue smartphones moving into the traditional handheld gaming market you didn't articulate it.

Gaming on smartphones is pretty much an all Apple affair. The treo and blackberry aren't really going to enter into the mobile gaming market.
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Nick
05/22/09

@Techguy1138: @Techguy1138: The DS had an incredible run, and the DSi has shown some impressive initial sales. But with the rise of the smartphone (which obviously includes the iPhone), Nintendo will need to move beyond corporate trash talk and figure out how they'll survive in the mobile gaming marketplace when consumers refuse to carry two devices. You know, a plan that doesn't include going the way of Sega on mobiles.

RTFA

ps
G1 has gaming too.
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PigVenus
10/31/08

In reply to Nintendo DSi To Hit US, Euro Shores In Summer '09, Says Iwata
Nintendo DSi = FAIL

The new stuff isn't interesting enough to justify the extra price. As an owner of a DS myself, I have NO reason to upgrade - if I buy another handheld system it will definitely be the PSP. And the reason is for homebrew alone. The emulators and utilities on the PSP are definitely much better than what is possible on the DS's puny hardware.
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Rabid Penguin
10/31/08

@PigVenus: Although you may be right about the PSP being more powerful, even with homebrew I've gotten a lot more enjoyment out of my DS than my PSP. Just a thought. I'm not sure how much PSP's are going for right now so I'll arbitrarily pick $150... and I don't think it's worth $150 to buy a PSP just to play Nintendo games :c)
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Nintenboy01
10/31/08

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It looks like the Japanese launch wasn't all that successful either. Seems few people bothered to line up.
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Rabid Penguin
10/31/08

@Nintenboy01: I would think the market is pretty saturated with DS's right now. I'm sure it will sell, but I doubt people will line up around the block to remove their GBA slot for a camera.
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